journal: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie

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Published since January 1, 1886

Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie

ISSN: 1613-1150

Edited by: Walther Sallaberger, Antoine Cavigneaux, Grant Frame, Alice Mouton, Adelheid Otto

About this journal

ZA publishes articles and reviews in all areas of Assyriology, including Near Eastern archaeology and art history. The main geographical areas covered are Mesopotamia, Northern Syria, Anatolia, Ancient Armenia, and Elam from the fourth to first millennia BC. All articles are peer-reviewed.

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Volume 113 Issue 1

July 2023

Publicly Available June 6, 2023

Titelseiten

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Nachruf

June 6, 2023

Rainer Michael Boehmer

2.12.1930–10.9.2022

Uwe Finkbeiner

Page range: 1-2

Abhandlungen

June 6, 2023

Šulgi in the Kuhdasht Plain

Bricks from a Battle Monument at the Crossroads of Western Pish-e Kuh and the Localisation of Kimaš and Ḫurti

Hamzeh Ghobadizadeh, Walther Sallaberger

Page range: 3-33

Abstract

Several exemplars of a brick inscription of Šulgi were found in the Kuhdasht Plain in the province of Lorestan, Iran. The reference to the destruction of Kimaš and Ḫurti provides strong evidence for the localisation of these two Zagros polities. The Ur III campaigns testify to the key role of the western Pish-e Kuh in overland traffic from the Diyala region or from Khuzestan to the central Zagros. As the source of the “copper from Kimaš,” we propose the ancient mines of Deh Hosein.

Open Access November 29, 2022

More to Tell About Billa!

Asimānum/Šimānum and the Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Baˁšīqā, Iraq

Alexander Johannes Edmonds, Petra M. Creamer

Page range: 34-50

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Despite being one of the most prominent and best-documented northern client states of the Ur III state, the city of Asimānum/Šimānum remained unlocalized. Here, we demonstrate through both historical-geographical and philological argumentation and archaeological evidence that it must correspond to later Middle and Neo-Assyrian Šibaniba, modern Tell Billa, northern Iraq. Building upon this finding, we propose a new history of Tell Billa during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.

Open Access November 29, 2022

Bīt mēseri at Aššur

Daniel Schwemer

Page range: 51-72

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A 191, a Neo-Assyrian tablet from the Haus des Beschwörungspriesters in Aššur, preserves instructions for the performance of an apotropaic ritual called Bīt mēseri (“house of enclosure”). The tablet, which is edited here for the first time, offers a version of the ceremony that is markedly different from the standard Bīt mēseri ritual known from other first-millennium sources found at Nineveh, Aššur, and various Babylonian sites. Whereas the core rites with their apotropaic images (figurines and paintings) are far less complex than their counterparts in the standard ritual, the ceremony attested on A 191 also includes elements that are absent in other Bīt mēseri sources. These elements include a Pazuzu rite, ointments, and the burning of incense, all of which are known from other āšipūtu (exorcistic) text series, such as Muššuʾu, Qutāru, the Zi-pà Compendium, and the Pazuzu Compendium.

June 6, 2023

Sargon II in the Mahidasht: New Evidence from Quwakh Tapeh, Kermanshah

Sajjad Alibaigi, John MacGinnis, Nicole Brisch, Louis D. Levine, Iraj Rezaei, Behnam Ghanbari

Page range: 73-93

Abstract

The eastward expansion of Assyria, richly narrated in official inscriptions and supported by corollary materials such as letters from the royal correspondence and oracular enquiries, remains in archaeological terms hugely under-explored. Over the past few years, however, this has begun to change and a succession of recent discoveries is starting to give us an increasingly more detailed picture of the imprint of Assyrian rule in this sector of the Empire. The two fragments of a monumental stele of Sargon II published here, excavated at the site of Quwakh Tapeh in the Mahidasht Plain, are an example of just the sort of find that is ushering in a new era in our understanding of the Assyrian presence in western Iran.

Open Access November 29, 2022

**Three Silver Debt Notes from Kalḫu in the Collection of Jørgen Læssøe, with a Discussion of the Neo-Assyrian Joint Responsibility Clause (ša karimūni)**

Troels Pank Arbøll, Karen Radner

Page range: 94-106

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November 29, 2022

An Akkadian-Hittite List of Body Parts (KBo 1.51)

Yoram Cohen

Page range: 107-120

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This article provides a complete and comprehensive edition, translation and commentary of KBo 1.51 from Hattuša. It identifies the source as an Akkadian-Hittite list of body parts, some of which are clearly of bovidae, and compares it to two tablets of the same nature: BM 29963 and HS 2944. By doing so, it establishes the existence of a hitherto unknown Akkadian scholarly composition. It discusses the nature of this particular list in relationship with the lexical corpora (Ḫḫ and Uguĝu) and its role as a functional or instructional text in the world of the diviner. The reconstruction of KBo 1.51 also allows us to reconsider some Hittite words and attribute new meanings to them that are otherwise unattested.

June 6, 2023

The Second Life of a Pair of Assyrian Column Bases

Auday Hussein

Page range: 121-128

Abstract

A water basin in the Al-Pasha Mosque in Mosul is identified as made from two Assyrian column bases.

Buchbesprechungen

June 6, 2023

Nathan Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Magic Literature. Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus – Context – Praxis. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 12). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2022. XXXII, 450 S., 2 Ill., 2 Tf., 12 Tab., 17 × 24 cm. ISBN 978-3-447-11765–4. Preis: € 89,– (D).

N.J.C. Kouwenberg

Page range: 129-132

June 6, 2023

Kaira Boddy: The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš. (Cuneiform Monographs 52). Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2021. 468 S. 15,5 × 23,5 cm. ISBN 978-90-04-43816–3 (hardback)/978–90–04–43817–0 (e-book). Preis: € 172,00.

Judith Pfitzner

Page range: 133-139

June 6, 2023

Mattias Karlsson: From the Nile to the Tigris. African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire. (State Archives of Assyria Studies 31). Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2022. xiv, 282 S. 17,5 × 24 cm. ISBN: 978-952-10-9510-8. Preis: $ 49,95.

Elena Mahlich

Page range: 140-143

June 6, 2023

Michele Cammarosano: At the Interface of Religion and Administration: The Hittite Cult Inventories. With a Contribution by Adam Kryszeń. (StBoT 68). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. XX, 264 Seiten. 17 × 24 cm. ISBN 978-3-447-11731-9. Preis: € 68,00.

Manfred Hutter

Page range: 143-143

June 6, 2023

Suzanne Herbordt und Alwo von Wickede: Kleinfunde aus der Oberstadt von Hattuša: Das zentrale Tempelviertel und die Tempelviertel am Königs- und Löwentor. (Boğazköy-Hattuša. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 29). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021; XIV, 754 Seiten, 131, XXVI Tafeln, 52 Abb., 6 Falttafeln, 23 Tabellen. 21 × 29,7 cm. ISBN 978-3-447-11525–4. Preis: € 128,00 (D)

Rainer Maria Czichon

Page range: 144-147

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Journal Impact Factor	0.3	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editorial

Prof. Dr. Walther Sallaberger
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie der Universität München
Geschw.-Scholl-Platz
D-80539 München
E-Mail: WaSa@assyr.fak12.uni-muenchen.de

In collaboration with

Antoine Cavigneaux, Genf
Grant Frame, Philadelphia
Alice Mouton, Ivry sur Seine
Adelheid Otto, München

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1613-1150
Print ISSN: 0084-5299
Type: Journal
Languages: German, English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1886
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year